Archive for June, 2005

Separated at Birth?

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

OK, keeping with my weirder of the weird celebrities playing the part of other celebrities, check out Johnny Knoxville!

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Seriously, Lindsay, you look like a skin covered skull — and it’s very thin skin at that.

Hurry up, Nick Carter

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

In keeping in line with my previous entry about Macauly Culkin playing the guy from Flock of Seagulls. How about Nick Carter playing early 90’s Simon LeBon?

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AP Photo

It was an amusing book. I like Sedaris’ writing. I can’t say that I had any great insights while reading it, but that’s not the point.

Tom Cruise, Idiot.

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

From the BBC [SOURCE].

“You’re glib. You don’t even know what Ritalin is,” Cruise told Lauer on Friday night’s show. “Psychiatry is a pseudo science,” he said. “You don’t know the history of psychiatry - I do,” he added.

First things first, I’m not sure he’s using the word “glib” properly. From what I understand, Lauer asserted that Ritalin was helpful to some people. This is just a fact. That’s not glib.

If psychiatry is a pseudo-science then perhaps he’ll be willing to admit that the e-meter is also a crock, you know, it was developed by those pseudo scientists.

One Stop Shopping

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

I’m a fan of one stop anything. I walk into Best Buy, stealthy as a cobra, pick my items and leave quick as a hare. That said, one-stop well-read-itude? That’s ridiculous!

HD vertigo

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

In efforts to attract people to HD capable televisions, Comcast has provided the “INHD” channels.

Visual. Orgasm.

You’ve seen nothing until you’ve seen cave diving, in HD, on a wide screen. It’s absolutely astounding. The claustrophobia, the silt, the oxygen deprivation.

Beautiful!

‘Horns win College World Series!

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

HORNS WIN COLLEGE WORLD SERIES!

Sweeping series 2-0, final score 6-2!

Frustrated, and wanting Kant

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

This evening I was in downtown MV and headed by the half-price bookstore, Book Buyers. While retrieving my bag from the counter (they didn’t have what I wanted) a harried woman came up behind me.

She was having trouble locating the philosophy section and asked for a book by “Eee-manuel Can’t. K-A-N-T. I’m looking for it and I can’t find it.”.

I had to restrain myself on two counts:

  1. She can’t find a book by Kant. h0 h0 h0! Being a bit harried I’m sure she wouldn’t have appreciated it.
  2. Butting in and asking which work she was looking for and trying to be of assistance.

A quick aside, I don’t mean to be snobby about her pronounciation, it’s probably a strange effect of my mutated head that I can’t conceieve of not saying it “Eye-manu-el Cahnt”.

In any case, the young lady behind the counter offered some directions and the harried lady shot off towards an uncertain fate searching for some Enlightenment-era Enlightenment from the Professor of K?nigsburg. I had to wonder what sort of maddening urge would drive a person to come in, so harried, in pursuit of a Critique (or two).

Sports news!

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

Day in / day out I’m not a sports fan, but when teams from where I’m from or where I’m at are in the finals, I tune in - all the better in HD.

Hooray for esse! SPURS WIN!!!

And my alma mater is in the college world series! Go ‘Horns!

Yay Texas teams.

A movie cliché? that must go away`

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

Man engineers a machine. Lighting bolt! Machine becomes sentient. BONUS: Machine goes rampaging after bolt BONUS (alt.): Machine teaches mankind about being human

Witness the latest clich? debacle: “Stealth”.

What a steamy pile.